It’s in the USA’s geopolitical interest to maintain relations with Israel.

1. It gives them a foothold in the middle east, on the coast of the Mediterranean sea. Egypt and Turkey have too much leverage for the USA to influence them, and the other allies are all past the red sea. Israel is smartening up to the situation and taking advantage.
2. After the messy withdrawal from Afghanistan, other states saw weakness in the USA and their allies. They need to maintain their current allies to show that they can protect all of their other relations.

We won’t get any resolution of the situation until after elections are over. If Biden does anything, it may negatively impact the Democrat’s campaign.

There is https://github.com/Alovoa/alovoa I haven’t taken a dive yet. I’m curious how much activity there is on it.

I’ve been using ReportLabs to make pdfs in Python. It took some getting used to but I can put together just about anything I can imagine. I still get a little lost when I need to dig into the source code and how it generates pdfs from templates though.

No shareholders if you aren’t publicly owned. Stakeholders, yeah probably, but no shareholders.

The annual gift tax exclusion of $18,000 for 2024 is the amount of money that you can give as a gift to one person, in any given year, without having to pay any gift tax

If anyone is looking for the gift tax limit I got the above quote from https://smartasset.com/retirement/gift-tax-limits

This is more than I remember, but I think I’m confusing it with the $6000 limit for contributions to an IRA account. I think it went up to $7000 this year, but I digress.

Conventional Linux use should be fine. It’s targeting SSH connections to other things over the net; connecting to a server, remote camera, etc. So it reverse engineers the connection by brute-forcing(?) Weak ssh passwords to install the malware.

I’m not an IT professional but this is my layman interpretation.

Real Life Lore has a good video about the potential resources under Greenland. What’s Hidden Under The Ice of Greenland?

Depends on the project. If it’s for fun, sure make all the square wheels you want and learn how to make them round. But if you just want your project to work you’d find something to use. Really depends on the developers goals.

Remnant 1 and 2 are both 3 players

This is a good book I read not long ago. Improv(e) Your Conversations: Think on Your Feet, Witty …. It’s not a long book and an enjoyable read. Each chapter takes a few minutes to read.

My take away from the book is to find what the other parties want to talk about and get them to talk about it. Also that controversial topics generally make conversations more memorable and form more intimate relationships.

What helps me is asking Copilot to try doing it. When it spits out garbage; if it hits any of my targets I can tune it from there.

Testing.

We are still workshopping the kiss one. That wolf is still working it’s way in.